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Do they make difference between "tech lead" and "team lead"? Asking for a friend :)
Yes! Team Lead has a management component to it. You often handle 1-on-1s, promotions, conflicts resolution, lead hiring processes, act a middleman to other parts of the company, but you still code (unlike a "pure" manager). Tech lead is more of a tech-only role, and there's often a non-coding manager present as well. All IME of course.
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If they can afford to wait three months (!) to start looking for work because of "feelings" they they deserved to be laid off.
Not everyone lives from hand to mouth and need a job ASAP. Additionally, most people I know in (US) big tech do not take adequate time off from work - it appears the unspoken rule is to take substantive breaks between jobs, rather than annually like they do in Europe.
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>> were hanging on to their jobs to save maybe 10% more or whatever The amount of wealth all people need is constant. It is 1.5 x whatever they have today.
As a counter example, I need about 100x what I have today.
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As software developers, everything we build will be obsolete, discarded or dead in 5-10 years. We are craftsmen of the ephemeral.
Ah, I miss the view of someone that has never worked outside of startups or technology sectors.
It is precisely due to my varied experience that I can point this out: the vast majority of startups and tech is dust in the wind.
I was laid off in november, in vc. Looking for PM/Ops roles. Applied to a ton of stuff where I was a great fit, no answer or immediate rejection lol. I'm 8 years out of school and am not applying for roles that are unrealistic. I think the entire hiring/search process is so broken. Different applications, formats. Don't get me started on having to fill out sections in a form that are just resume sections (work experi…
>"Don't get me started on having to fill out sections in a form that are just resume sections" I haven't been laid off but I've been dipping my toe in the past few months because I'm a bit bored in my current role. The process is much more fiddly than it needs to be. When I run into those 'fill this out again for our system' forms, often times it's after a long day and I will just save it to come back to it later...a…
If you can't trust that somebody who has 10+ years of experience as an engineer at a FAANG company is competent, then that says something bad about social proof and confidence.
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I mean.. that sounds like a legitimate reason to not extend you an offer. But it's good that you know this about yourself and can hopefully formulate an actionable path to improvement!
I'm just going to coast/struggle at my current job.
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I've heard from a few sources that there's a disgusting stigma of "if you were laid off, there must be a reason."
I've always assumed this was the stigma, so I've always avoided mentioning it, but during the much more competitive market in 2020-2021, it seemed like big tech types were the only ones wise enough to look past that stigma and appreciate that often, cuts are to business units, not people. My wife was part of a big (31%) layoff at an AI Healthcare company during the earliest round of layoffs, and she had literally hun…
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Sure there's plenty? Some reqs are ridiculously detailed and specific. Oh you have Python 3.10.7 installed, sorry we can't hire you we use 3.10.6 here. Next! Oh we want someone with 4 years experience, you only have 3 yrs 11 months call back later. Next!
My favorite was from some years ago when Java was about 8 years old and C# about 3. They wanted 10 years of Java and 5 years of C#.
Or how about the time a clueless recruiter asked DHH how many years of Rails experience he had and he replied "all of them."
Serious question for the folks who are not getting many callbacks. Are you looking for remote-only work, or are you looking at both remote and on-site opportunities?